The dog days of August are giving way to September and the SCC League is nearing its apex. With just one more week and two more games to go before the semifinals, the season is coming into stark relief. The match-ups in Division 1 and Division 2 were already set last week, but it will take the final game of the Division 3 season to determine the division’s semifinal matchup.

A Bashers win will see them at the top of the D3 table, with the DPR Hot Dogs and Pudong Dream Team left to battle it out in the September 9 semifinal. A loss, and Pudong will go through top and the Bashers will play the Hot Dogs for the second time in three weeks.

The defending Division 1 champion Daredevils CC lost only 1 match in a 2012 campaign that saw them advance to a second straight finals with an impressive 10-1-1 record. The Bashers, who were the only team to defeat the Daredevils, will meet their greatest opponent in the semifinals, the DPR Hot Dogs, a team they have beaten only once in their eight year history.

Defending Division 2 champion Pudong Power eked into the semis on point differential. They will face the Digital Devils in a rematch of the 2011 final in the first of two semifinal matches. In the second match, a surging Dynamite Devils will face the Leopards CC, a team that appears to be suddenly vulnerable following the loss of stalwart Biplav Pokhrel.